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Originally Posted by Somnium
I use an electric gate opener with an arduino to control the opening and closing. I wrote an ascom driver for it too. Cost for the system was around $300 for the gate opener and $10 for the arduino and other minor electronics. The system works flawlessly. while it is not as straight forward as plug and play, i managed to write the code for both the arduino and the ascom driver and i am not a computer engineer. Let me know if you want any more info, happy to share my code and talk about what is possible. the system i developed could easily be packaged up and reused, or minor adjustments to make it work with a different type of roof.
Aidan
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Now that is the business
H is correct, my absco pool cover sheds are not automated. I don't think that the hinge setup as supplied by absco is particularly well suited to automation - the roof does act like a sail when opening and closing in windy conditions. I have been thinking that a roll-off mod with something like the setup proposed by Aidan might be the way to go (for me) in the future